Example sentences of "[been] [verb] out [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 2 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 3 | VICAR 'S daughter Hannah Murray-Leslie was outraged by village gossips who claimed she had been booted out of a public school because of a frolic behind the bicycle shed . |
| 4 | FOUR ex-servicemen have been booted out of a British Legion social club after going to war over what they believe are missing funds of up to £250,000 . |
| 5 | Once materials have been booked out of a main store formalities and paperwork should be kept to a minimum or avoided altogether . |
| 6 | The work has been carried out through a rolling programme covering 19 occupational areas and the results are published in the official journal of the EC . |
| 7 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 8 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 9 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 10 | The situation at the moment in the field of research in homoeopathy is that much encouraging and interesting work demonstrating effects of homoeopathic potencies has been carried out in a wide variety of laboratory and clinical models . |
| 11 | The Minister also said that the medical examination had been carried out in a sympathetic and professional manner . |
| 12 | Sometimes the act has been carried out in a hostile fashion that causes maximum distress to the staff . |
| 13 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 14 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 15 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 16 | 200 post offices have been re-opened out of a pre-war total of 700 . |
| 17 | Contrary to speculation , the house has not been lent out to a public exhibition since 1925 , but remains where it was designed to stand , the only completely untouched Lutyens house in existence , a permanent record of a way of life between the wars . |
| 18 | Staff and patients have finally been moved out of a unique hospital ward . |
| 19 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 20 | When she was nineteen she had been going out with a steady boyfriend for three years , and they had decided to get married . |
| 21 | No doubt half the population of Paris could have been wiped out by a typhoid epidemic in 1788 , and perhaps the king would not then have been sent to the guillotine . |
| 22 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 23 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 24 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 25 | It had been born out of a clandestine meeting in Hong Kong in February 1930 at a time which there were in fact three communist parties in Vietnam . |
| 26 | Letters of her own to a friend had been pulled out of a waste-paper basket by the friend 's husband , who did a jigsaw puzzle of the bits to find if there were signs that his wife had complained of him . |
| 27 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 28 | The turkeys , actually , are by Meyer Vaisman one of the baddest of the art world bad boys and they have been set out in a big free-range area at Castelli until the 17th of the month . |
| 29 | The general rule is that one tenant can not enforce covenants contained in another tenant 's lease , but there are a number of exceptions being mainly as follows : ( 1 ) Where a tenant has taken an assignment from the landlord of the benefit of a covenant entered into by a tenant of other premises ; ( 2 ) Where various tenants or their predecessors in title have entered into a mutual deed of covenant ( in which case each can enforce the covenants against the others ) ; ( 3 ) Where the estate has been laid out under a common scheme for building ( known as a building scheme ) and the leases have been taken pursuant to that scheme ; ( 4 ) Where there is a letting scheme , which is similar to a building scheme , but there need be no physical laying out of the estate . |
| 30 | The main lawn and border shapes have been laid out in a flowing line that leads you through the garden , echoing the curve of the path . |